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CALGARY — The issue with Jerome Messam was never talent, because everyone from Wally Buono to Jim Popp to could see Messam was blessed with supernatural gifts. But he was also blessed with a talent for self-destruction, casting light on why he played for six different organizations in five years. This year, in Calgary, the light finally went […]

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Police on Vancouver Island have arrested a man who allegedly tossed a coffee in the face of a visiting quarterback at a junior football game. RCMP say the arrest was made Saturday around 9 p.m. during a Westshore Rebels game at Westhills stadium in the Victoria suburb of Langford. The alleged victim was the QB […]

SkyTrain service at Main Street station has resumed after a medical emergency caused it to shut down earlier Saturday night. Trains were running on a single track between Stadium and Commercial-Broadway stations, but weren’t stopping at the Main Street Station. Both the Millennium and Expo lines were affected, causing 16 shuttle buses to be deployed. TransLink says they […]

The run also rises. Unfortunately for fans of the B.C. Lions, their team no longer does. With a chance to start 3-0 for the first time since 2007 — a year the Lions went 14-3-1 and placed nine players on the CFL all-star team, but lost the West final to Saskatchewan — B.C. was stopped […]

If first-year head coach Dave Dickenson was looking to take a Master of Intimidation course, he couldn’t have picked two better profs than John Hufnagel and Wally Buono, forceful personalities he has coached with and played for in his Canadian Football League career.

Bryan Burnham is in line for a breakout season. When given the opportunity, the receiver has shown potential in each of his first two seasons, but has had momentum interrupted by injuries, including a ruptured spleen in 2014. And he's shown great chemistry with new No. 1 Jonathon Jennings.

Camden, N.J., is not Camelot. It has long been one of the most dangerous places in America, a once bustling industrial town that finds itself in the middle of a drug war, with high unemployment and a skyrocketing murder rate. “It’s one of the worst cities in America,” B.C. Lions rookie linebacker Dyshawn Davis says of […]

You can find advanced statistics that attest to Maxx Forde’s burgeoning promise as a football player. And the B.C. Lions are happy to provide them. Yet the preferred metric used by most football fans is draft position, starting with the obvious: First-round draft picks are supposed to be better players than seventh-rounders. To Wally Buono’s […]

For Lions hopefuls, B.C. is quarterback-development hell. Typifying a trend in recent years, once up-and-coming Greg McGhee was down-and-out after the latest round of cuts by the Canadian Football League team. From McGhee (released on Saturday) to Travis Partridge (2014), Chris Hart (2013), Jarrett Brown (2012) and Corey Leonard (2011), the Lions have had a […]

Quarterback Greg McGhee — a highly touted NCAA quarterback personally recruited by former B.C. Lions head coach Jeff Tedford last year — was one of 10 players released by the Canadian Football League on cutdown day Saturday.

KAMLOOPS — Three weeks of training in Thompson-Nicola Country provided some answers for the B.C. Lions. But there are still some questions left hanging, as the team broke camp Wednesday and returned home to prepare for Friday’s pre-season game against the Calgary Stampeders. Such as: What is the soundness of linebacker Solomon Elimimian’s surgically repaired Achilles? Elimimian […]

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